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Testimony of Lea (Saker) Kusznir, born in Vilna, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Strassenhof and Stutthof

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Testimony of Lea (Saker) Kusznir, born in Vilna, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Strassenhof and Stutthof Life before the war; attends a high school. Soviet occupation, 1939; German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; ghetto life; labor for an estate owner in exchange for food; liquidation of the ghetto, 1943; disappearance of her parents after a selection; deportation to Kaiserwald; transfer to Strassenhof; camp life including forced labor digging trenches and in a carpet factory; deportation to Stutthof; camp life including forced labor digging...

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Testimony of Hersh Gross regarding his experiences in the Skarzysko-Kamienna camp

Testimony of Hersh Gross regarding his experiences in the Skarzysko-Kamienna camp Life in the Skarzysko-Kamienna camp; work at the Hasag factory; work at the factory even after the liquidation of the local ghetto; relations between the inmates; treatment of the other inmates by the inmates holding positions.

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Memoirs of Moric Tauber, born in Slovakia, regarding his experiences in the camps of Niederorschel and Langenstein Zwieberge

Memoirs of Moric Tauber, born in Slovakia, regarding his experiences in the Niederorschel camp and Langenstein Zwieberge camp Life before the war; occupation as a physician. Camp life in Niederorschel; treatment of the inmates by the Kapo and SS personnel; observance of the holidays; medical treatment; labor in the Langersalza-Werke factories; labor in the outside work detail; transfer to the Langenstein Zwieberge camp; camp life. Liberation.

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Testimony of Ludwik Fleck, born in Lwow, Poland, 1896, regarding his experiences in Lwow and his labor in the field of serology and bacteriology in the Laokoon factory laboratory in Lwow and in the medical experiments block for women in Auschwitz and in Buchenwald Deportation from his home in Lwow, September 1941; labor in the Jewish hospital on Koziewicza Street; stay in hiding, and the death of his two sisters and brothers-in-law during an "Aktion", 1942; transfer to the Jewish quarter; detention in the hospital with his wife and son, who worked as laboratory technicians, November 1942; labor in a...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 460

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Testimony of Maksymiljan Lipschuetz, born in Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1911, regarding his experiences in Linz III camp, and his experiences and those of another inmate, Emil Waldman, in Mauthausen Labor clearing rubble in Linz III camp, summer 1944; transfer to Mauthausen in a group of 10 chemists, including Emil Waldman, one month later; labor in an oil factory; attitude of the labor supervisor toward Waldman, and his assignment to harsh physical labor; his transfer to labor in a laboratory, thanks to the Lagerältester (camp elder), February 1945; deportation of sick people to Allach camp, April...

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Testimony of Majer Jochnowicz, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in Pustkow camp, Auschwitz, Gleiwitz camp and Blechhammer camp

Testimony of Majer Jochnowicz, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in Pustkow camp, Auschwitz, Gleiwitz camp and Blechhammer camp Deportation from Tarnow to the Pustkow camp a short time after the German occupation; very small food portions; murder of Jewish laborers during labor, by the German overseers; escape to Tarnow; captured and punished with 25 lashes; raid on the barrack of the inmates by intoxicated SS men, who beat the inmates until the morning roll-call, December 1942; mass murder of Soviet POWs who were brought to the camp; systematic murder, including abuse and torture, of...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 421

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

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Testimony of Izaak Glettner, born in Przemysl, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in the Rzeszow, Plaszow, Wieliczka, Flossenburg, Kolmar and Watenstedt camps

Testimony of Izaak Glettner, born in Przemysl, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in the Rzeszow, Plaszow, Wieliczka, Flossenburg, Kolmar and Watenstedt camps Deportation of his whole family from the Przemysl Ghetto to Belzec, July 1942; transfer to a labor camp for manufacturing aviation parts in Rzeszow; sadistic treatment from the guards and SS men: executions under torture, setting dogs on, and random shootings at, inmates; transfer to the Plaszow camp, summer 1944; transfer to the Wieliczka camp a week later, then to the Flossenburg camp another week later; the clothing of the inmates taken away...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 401

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Testimony of Mina Kalfus, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1899, regarding her experiences and the experiences of her family in the Tarnow Ghetto, the Krakow Ghetto and in Plaszow, Auschwitz and Lichtewerden camps Tarnow Ghetto life, including the capture of Jews who exited their apartments, and their murder in a prison or on the street; removal of her father from their apartment and his murder in the courtyard, 11 June 1942; detention of her 13 year old son, and he receives an order to pack food for three days while supposedly en route to labor; transport of her son along with 11,000 Jews from Tarnow in sealed...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 381

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Testimony of Chaskiel Fischman, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1921, regarding his family's experiences in Tarnow and his experiences in Pustkow camp, Auschwitz and other places

Testimony of Chaskiel Fischman, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1921, regarding his family's experiences in Tarnow and his experiences in Pustkow camp, Auschwitz and other places Outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union; detention of his parents and sister; their release from detention two days later, following the amputation [cutting off] of his father's leg; deportation of his family during the first "Aktion"; escape of the witness after the arrival of Polish policemen who came to search for him; taking of his uncle and his aunt as hostages, with the promise that the witness will voluntarily...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 370

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Testimony of an anonymous physician, regarding his experiences in Pustkow, Auschwitz, Gleiwitz III and Blechhammer camps

Testimony of an anonymous physician, regarding his experiences in Pustkow, Auschwitz, Gleiwitz III and Blechhammer camps Transfer of the Jewish inmates from two labor camps in Pustkow, 16 September 1942; transfer of more than 1,000 Poles from the Lublin vicinity, in place of the Jews; the witness remains in the camp, with a group of 240 Jews; labor as a physician in the Polish camp; attitude of the Germans towards the Poles including giving beatings and abuse, and a dysentery epidemic and torture of the sick people until they died; death of approximately 900 inmates within several months; arrival of...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 36

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results.listIds.lang : Polish

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